Geekin' Out

What happens when we go to All Saints, sit around a too-small-for-four-people table, and drink coffee?
Apparently Lauren decides she wants to bake carrot cake, Grandma suggests some potato stew, I offer to make the cream cheese frosting, and Danielle whips out the blackberry to discover recipes.
What's missing.... nothing because we also decided to watch Lord of the Rings while eating this feast.

Publix adventure ensues, and soon we are home cranking the HilDuff slicing vegetables, peeling carrots, and convincing Lauren that she will fall in love with the shire and cry when she sees Orcs being birthed from mud. Well at least that's what our reactions typically are.

End results?

• The carrot cake decided to expand past its little cupcake walls BUT was still delicious.
• The icing thinks its a good idea to remain thick, not creamy and spreadable BUT we forgive it. 
• The PO-TAY-TO stew is perfect - mad props Grandma 
• Lauren loved LOTR and is ready for the adventure to continue. She also felt a special connection with the Orcs and apologized to the rest of us for their behavior. 

Themed nights of the future?

• Italian night with Chocolate Ganache Expresso Cheesecake. 
• Cheeseburgers, milkshakes, and french fries; featuring some American movie. 
• Chinese takeout with a gaylord chick movie 
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True Life: ....

• MY HAMSTER IS A CAGE DANCER
• MY EX IS STALKS ME AND MY ROOMMATES
• "DAD??!"
• I'M OBSESSED WITH NAIL POLISH
• I HAVE AN EATING PROBLEM
• I'M IN A CULT (aka interior design)

FINALLY REUNITED

It has not even been a complete 12 hours since we were happily reunited, but if this is any indication of how our next semester is going to turn out, all I can say is look out FSU.
Of course we would love to be dancing in the streets of Tallahassee, like those young fellows....






however since it is literally freezing outside. Yes it's a lovely 24 degrees, we have opted to hibernate. Which basically just means we decided binge eating Tyler's cooking/baking was a better idea than looking cute in a parka.

New Favorites

Things we are doing in the new year

1. finding karaoke

2. dancing until our feet want to fall off

3. actually cook something out of our cook books

4. lose that 5 lbs we've been talking about

5. road trip it somewhere (atlanta? -D, anywhere with a beach? nashville? san antonio....mapquested that shiit)

6. see dear john

7. read

8. watch every season of The L Word

9. hang out with our lovely neighbors

J: aww i miss eric dylan fahim and mike

10. find something new to do with the A

the accidental cabbage.

It's pretty pathetic. Not even a week has gone by and I already miss you guys.
I watched SYTYCD and all I wanted to do was make fun of Ryan's tiny head, and how ridiculous the dance he did with Ashleigh was. I basically wanted to kill myself.
Oh! I was reading Martha Stewart Living, I know I'm 40 years old with 3 children and a pearl necklace on at all times, but that's besides the point. The January issue wasn't filled with festive ideas for New Years parties or how to bedazzle an entire dress to wear to these outings, oh no. There was however an entire 8 page spread devoted to the cabbage.
How to cook cabbage, what to cook it with, all the pretty colors it can be. There were pictures of it sliced, in wedges, stuffed with God knows what. Someone seriously sat there and tried to figure out what lighting would look best on the cabbage, how to arrange it, where to lightly drizzle some strange sauce and place a random spoon on top.
All I kept thinking about was our taco night and how for some reason I grabbed a head of cabbage instead of lettuce, and then we let it sit on our counter as we stared at it trying to figure out what exactly we could make with it.
Well apparently Martha has a few hundred ideas. If only we'd known.

You know it's finals week when...

1. You show up to your 7:30 a.m. exam with your shirt inside out - Lauryn

2. You can't keep track of the days because you go to sleep at 4:30 a.m., wake up at 7:30, take an exam, come home and sleep until 2 in the afternoon and start studying again.

3. Seeing people on campus in reindeer printed PJ pants and hair that looks like it hasn't been washed in 2 days is normal.

4. You go to a coffee shop to quietly study, not talk about the fun things you've done in the last week, and people playing cards and laughing is annoying.

5. Your brain literally hurts, as in it decides to stop working and all you can do is mindlessly stare at trashy television.

6. Getting fresh air only happens as you walk from your house to your test.

7. Setting your alarm for 6:30 am happens at least twice in 5 days.

8. Things that are normally amusing are HILARIOUS because you are delirious.

9. Selling your books back for $2 seems like the best thing ever.

10. Even though you don't have to go to any classes, it's the worst week of the year.

Dear finals week, we hate you.